Grimm's Fairy Stories, The Water of Life, sentence 46
While the King lay in this state, the two elder Princes came, and accused their Brother of poisoning their Father; but they had brought the right water, and they handed it to the King.
Who acts: King, two elder Princes, Brother, thoughts · What happens: lie, come, accuse, poison, bring, hand · To what, where: state, Brother, Father, thoughts, water, King
This is a sentence of «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, The Water of Life. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, two elder Princes, Brother, thoughts), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 lay | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 King | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 lay | nsubj |
| 4 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 came | advcl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 state | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 state | det |
| 7 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lay | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 lay | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Princes | det |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 Princes | nummod |
| 11 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Princes | amod |
| 12 | Princes | Prince | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 accused | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 accused | cc |
| 16 | accused | accuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 came | conj |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 Brother | nmod:poss |
| 18 | Brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 accused | obj |
| 19 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 20 poisoning | mark |
| 20 | poisoning | poison | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 Brother | acl |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 Father | nmod:poss |
| 22 | Father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 poisoning | obj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 brought | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 27 brought | cc |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 brought | aux |
| 27 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 came | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 water | det |
| 29 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 water | amod |
| 30 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 brought | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 handed | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 handed | cc |
| 33 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 handed | nsubj |
| 34 | handed | hand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 came | conj |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 handed | obj |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 King | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 King | det |
| 38 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 handed | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | past | the King | this state | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in state=Location | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the two elder Princes | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | accuse | past | the two elder Princes not said here | thoughts's Brother | vn suspect-81 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent brother=Theme | ||||
| 4 | poison | gerund | thoughts's Brother not said here | thoughts's Father | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Patient | ||||
| 5 | bring | past · perfect · passive | thoughts = thought | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination water=Theme | |||||
| 6 | hand | past | thoughts = thought | water | the King | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to king=Destination |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Grimm's Fairy Stories» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 11027 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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